MTV Radio Network: How did you come up with the name Papa Roach?

Coby Dick: The cockroach represents longevity. Like when the bomb hits, what's going to be around? Cockroaches. That's like us. We're dirty, underground. When you see one of them, you know there's a million of them, and that's our plan, to infest. That's Papa Roach. And actually, to tell you the truth, it's my grandpa's name.

Dave Buckner: His great grandpa, his name is Papa Roach. He lives in a little retirement home in California, and every Sunday he plays the fiddle for the folks at the retirement home.

MTV: Tell us about the "Last Resort" video.

Dick: The video is pretty much in a live format, and there are like, five hundred kids, local fans who came out to the video shoot. It got the vibe of the band really well. We just tear it up. It's pretty powerful. Everyone we've shown it to really thought it was a great video, and we're really happy with it. A guy named Marcos Siega did it. He also did "Waffle" for Sevendust, and [videos for] P.O.D., Blink-182.

Buckner: One thing I'd like to say about the video, too, is that I really like the fact that it's 500 of our closest friends and diehard fans from Sacramento, and I think that really comes across in the video.

MTV: Can you tell us about that song?

Dick: It's about my old roommate. I lived with him in high school. I moved out of my house and it was me and him in this house. He lived in a house by himself since he was like twelve, and his parents lived on the other side of town. Anyway, he had hooked up with this girl, and had, like, a guilt trip kind of problem about it, and from there he just went into a downward spiral within himself. He was an artist and a painter and a really deep thinker, and when he started thinking, it just picked at his brain and picked at his brain until he just went literally crazy. He tried to kill himself, and through attempting to kill himself, I think he killed that part of him that was rotting away inside of him. So that's where that song came from: my experience of living with him and being with him through the whole process. Now he's all right. He's mentally stable, which is cool.

MTV: You know what they say, sometimes you have to hit the absolute bottom before you can make your way back up.

Dick: Exactly. I think rock and roll needs one of these records right now. I think people have had enough of the candy-coated BS, and they need something to connect with on a real level. We're not about escapism. We tackle issues that are hard to deal with in real life.

Buckner: I think we do a good job of bringing emotion through with the music. Like "Broken Home" is a really haunting melody.

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